Get the latest tech news

AI Won't Kill Junior Devs – But Your Hiring Strategy Might

No juniors today means no seniors tomorrow: rethinking talent development

In decades past, a junior developer's learning journey was fairly structured: you'd join a team, pair up with a more experienced engineer, and spend months gaining proficiency by slogging through basic tasks. In earlier generations, learning through struggle (e.g. scouring Stack Overflow threads) was slower but built deeper understanding; by contrast,"AI gives you answers, but the knowledge you gain is shallow", Goel notes, whereas reading expert discussions taught not just what worked but . Kesha Williams, an engineering leader, notes that thanks to AI automation her team's developers (including juniors) have more time to focus on "strategy and system design and creative problem-solving," and it even"seems to help them move faster into architecture."

Get the Android app